Name
Samuel Paddick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/05/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
234469
Royal Field Artillery
153rd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IX. B. 71.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial,
St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne,
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Walter and Mary Ann Paddick and was living in 11 Admiral’s Walk, Hoddesdon in 1891 and in 1901 and living as a boarder in Tottenham as a bookstall clerk in 1911. He married Bessie F. Benham in 1912 and they lived at 35 Lord Street, Hoddesdon.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and died of wounds probably in hospital at Boulogne.
Additional Information
Samuel is also commemorated on the family headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND DRIVER S. PADDICK R.F.A. DIED OF WOUNDS
INTERRED BOULOGNE CEMETERY MAY 12TH 1918 AGED 31 YEARS
INTERRED BOULOGNE CEMETERY MAY 12TH 1918 AGED 31 YEARS
Acknowledgments
Richard Barber, Malcolm Lennox
